Wellness

Do you consider yourself to be an emotionally aware parent? Dr. Cindy Hovington, a neuroscientist and fellow Montrealer has been using this term lately. In our conversation, she explains what this means, and how we can all learn coping skills to help better parent our children. I have been a…

Today was the first day back to school for my boys. Everything was pretty relaxed, and easy to get together this year, and it felt good. We didn’t need a slew of shopping trips for new clothes, they had what they needed. We bought them new runners earlier in the…

Recycling is not the same as a zero-waste lifestyle. Read my journey in learning the difference and why you should care about it too. I used to love telling people that my family recycled so much. Our large recycling bin is front and center in the kitchen and our smaller…

Children are full of emotions – and it takes time for them to learn how to deal understand them. Here are some of strategies to help your child cope with anxiety. Do you ever feel like your child is having a meltdown for no reason? Like, it just comes out…

In many ways, we have paired down our needs versus our wants, even more so since the pandemic began. At the same time, we have gotten really good at knowing what things we use the most, and what things we require for our road trips, back and forth to our…

Family water safety is an incredibly important topic. Setting rules and boundaries to keep your family safe is a MUST, especially with pool season in full swing. Take a look at my water safety tips and how you can keep your family safe by the pool this season. When the…

As my family and I prepared for the last weeks of school this year, news was coming out about the bodies of Indigenous children found on the land of residential schools in Canada. My twins came back from school one day and said that a girl in their class was…

I’m really excited to share this with you. I have teamed up with Dermadry to create this post. All opinions are honest and my own. Picture it: June 1994, graduation day. The day was blessed with glorious summer weather, and my boyfriend and friends were having their graduation ceremony at…

It’s been a year since we began living life in a global pandemic. For us here in Montreal, March 13th was our official day of lockdown, just after our spring break. I remember volunteering in the library of my children’s school as I have done every week for years, but…

It’s been 7 weeks since I last published a post. I stress the word published because I have started a dozen posts, only to shelve them for numerous reasons. Either the information changed, the suggestions were irrelevant, or the content just didn’t feel significant during this time. I have branded…